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Civil Resistance

2014
Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Civil Resistance and Democratization

2020
Abstract This chapter concludes the study of civil resistance transitions (CRTs), summarizing the evidence from the quantitative and qualitative studies. It speaks to the limitations of the study, including its inability to speak to the effects of failed civil resistance campaigns on democratization, dependence on specific ...
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Spontaneity and Civil Resistance

2020
This chapter examines the contingent and endogenous causes that sparked the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Spurred by two contingent events generating pre-emptive and massive mobilization, the movement was a spontaneous transformation of the long-planned Occupy Central campaign.
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The Ethics of (Un)Civil Resistance

Ethics & International Affairs, 2019
AbstractCivil disobedience is a conscientious, unlawful, and broadly nonviolent form of protest, which most political philosophers and many non-philosophers are inclined to treat as potentially defensible in democratic societies. In recent years, philosophers have become more receptive to long-standing complaints from activists that civil disobedience ...
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the civilizing of resistance: straightedge tattooing

Deviant Behavior, 2003
The social lifestyle "Straightedge" is a response to the hedonistic bodily indulgences (e.g., substance abuse, promiscuity) of many North Americans. Practitioners emphasize self-restraint and bodily purity as a "deviant" alternative to these practices.
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Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring

2016
1. The Background to Civil Resistance in the Middle East 2. Revolt for Dignity: Tunisia's Revolution and Civil Resistance 3. Egypt's Unfinished Revolution 4. Revolution and Counter-revolution in Bahrain 5. Civil Resistance in Libya during the Arab Spring 6. The Change Squares of Yemen: Civil Resistance in an Unlikely Context 7. Hirak!
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Civil Resistance

2022
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Confronting the caliphate? Explaining civil resistance in jihadist proto-states

European Journal of International Relations, 2021
Isak Svensson
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Learning from Criticisms of Civil Resistance

Critical Sociology, 2021
Brian Martin
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Reinforcing Criticisms of Civil Resistance: A Response to Onken, Shemia-Goeke, and Martin

Critical Sociology, 2021
Alexei Anisin
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